 I work in a school that is very poverty stricken and our kids have not had the opportunities that many other children have. Most of them are migrants or refugees that come to our school and we discovered about four years ago that the way that we were teaching them was not meeting their needs and so in order to meet that promise of public education we decided to make some changes and we began doing some research and we found STEM and we decided that that would better meet the needs of our kids so that we could level the playing field. When we got the grant we were able to purchase supplies and technology pieces so that we could kind of amp up our STEM projects where they would meet the expectations that we were hoping for they would really build them up and so that has been really exciting. We really have things in our school that they have never seen or touched before. We made additional changes this year where we have added a 30-minute elective block in our day and so kids from second grade on choose all kinds of different activities. They can be in production, they can be in coding or robotics. We actually kind of focused more on STEAM because we wanted to make sure they had the arts element in our school so we also have for the first time we're trying a musical which includes we're asking the kids to create the costumes, create the set, create the lighting, they will do all of that, bring in that engineering piece. Like I said our school kind of had a bad rap for a long time and so with us being able to purchase some of this equipment and bring STEM into the school we have been able to double our science scores with the state testing so it is really it really is helping us to level that playing field because they are building confidence and they are having access to technology and tools that they didn't have access to before because we couldn't afford it and their families couldn't afford for them to participate in STEM camps or you know those kind of activities that some of the more affluent schools can send their kids to. Because of the NEA Foundation we had a big STEM symposium of our own in the spring last year and it was the first time that our kids were invited to something like that and they just shine so bright and we're so excited to share what they learned.